Strands and Phases
All of our ITE programmes are underpinned by a Framework of Strands and Phases that outline the knowledge a beginning teacher needs to develop and the phases of their journey through their ITE year and beyond.
Each phase of your programme is built around a key question of inquiry about beginning teacher development. For example: ‘In what ways can you develop an understanding of the specialised knowledge a teacher needs?’ or ‘How can you become confident in planning, teaching and evaluating lessons?’.
Within a phase you will explore and develop your knowledge as a teacher in seven areas:
- Teacher as professional
- Teacher as thinker
- Subject knowledge for teaching
- Pedagogies
- Progressing learning for all
- Curriculum
- Building positive relationships
The first phase captures this period of time before you start your course and is all about preparing for September. Click image below to open up full document with all phases.
As you undertake the various tasks and activities outlined within this pre-course website, keep in mind the inquiry question and foci above - this should help you make sense of what we are asking you to do and give a purpose to each activity.
As phase two begins, when you join us in September, we will build on this work to support you to begin to develop your specialised knowledge as a teacher.